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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the public, when you're going to be able to capture the President. He knew how to do that. Myers Yes. Heininger He … Myers From the point of first putting pen to paper, to the President putting the pen to the law and signing it into law, … get it through? Myers Well, we had the stars lined up with President [Barack] Obama and Democrats in charge of the House …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… doubts about No Child Left Behind, and I expressed that to President [George W.] Bush. I instinctively didn’t like … or that anybody deserved a lot of criticism other than the President himself, from my point of view. I don’t recall … and with all of her beliefs, but that’s what electing Presidents is about. If the candidates are qualified by …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… became available because the Japanese wife of the then president of the New Haven Railroad, Patrick McGuiness, had … really taught him to be a political advance man in the President’s ’58 Senate campaign, which Joey Gargan had also …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… that was going to screen applications for judicial office. President [Jimmy] Carter wanted the judges screened by a … selection" committee who would make recommendations to the President. I was a member of that committee. Father Mohan was … The ABA [American Bar Association] liked that idea, the President liked that idea, and Griffin Bell wanted that. He …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at key parts of the debate. During the impeachment of President [William J.] Clinton, which he took a very big role … Manley It was a provocative charge to lay against the President at that time. Why is it? Because you’re basically … in time, when he was at the height of his powers, he being President [George W.] Bush, such an analogy was highly …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… said, “You’re a liar,” like they did last night about the President. So I was very proud of my constituents, and … like this, there’s a strong preference for supporting the President.” There hadn’t been any challenge made for a number … Scott, had gone down to the White House and said, “Mr. President, we can’t be with you on Haynsworth, but we’ll be …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was new to the Senate; he didn’t have a staff; he was the President’s younger brother. There were file drawers stuffed … Strauss No, it was not relatively low, because he was the President’s brother. Anybody who wanted to get his or her …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… is my biased Kennedy staffer’s view coming in—that President Carter was dropping the ball on dealing with the … work? Myers In retrospect, really important. But no President seemed to want to touch it after that. [William] … ] one of those Simpsonesque quotes from that time. No President wanted to invoke the ire of the employer community, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… it was very personal because I was nominated by the first President [George H.W.] Bush in the fall of 1990, and from … Whether it’s the realization that you’re not going to be President—and again, I don’t have the insight, I’m not the … were in Boston—I think it was 2000. It was with then-Vice President Gore. We were doing an event, I was there, Senator …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… come through. Knott When Senator Kennedy ran against President [Jimmy] Carter in 1980, did you take a position on … It had to do with the fact that I thought an incumbent President should be supported, should have a chance to a … who had the soul of an Irish poet, actually invited me to preside over the House when Medicare was passed. I’ve still …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Knott Right. Taylor He and George Miller went to work on President Bush after the bill was passed, and they got him to … on this issue, which doesn’t mean I think well of the President at all. Knott Do you think Kennedy sees this whole … wish him luck. I was invited to the White House when the President was giving his State of the Union message, because …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the middle. Of course by then, Mills wanted to run for President, so he wanted to do something with Kennedy. They … it. I wanted to leap over and grab him and say, You’re the President. That’s not what you are paid for. We didn’t get a … this accord. I remember this because [Ronald] Reagan was President at the time with his index cards. You thought there …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… think it was Jimmy King—called me and asked if I—I was the president of the House Officers Association at that time, and … that in the past. It may have been a stepping stone to the Presidency. I don’t know, but it seems to me they were very …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… School kids. Miller No, it wasn’t. Ted Landsmark is the president of the Boston Architectural College. You know that, … fork any lightning. Spend your time trying to get us a President. He laughed and said okay. I admire Kennedy. I’m …
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| George W. Bush Project… any political—the U.S. attorney is appointed by the President. Even there, the people continue their tenure. If … District was three for one. So there were three from the President’s party and one from the other party. And my … things under attack. One is the country, the other is the Presidency, and I think I can help with that. I’d like to …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… them and things like that. He mentioned that his brother, President [John F.] Kennedy, had always had a good … not too many people can give, about their brother the President. So he and I were always on the same wavelength … writer. A little side story: I think it was in 1990 when President [George H. W.] Bush sent up a budget. The Cold War …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of course, the excitement at that time of him running for President, and you were literally picked. You were picked to … feelings that people had for the Kennedy family when President Kennedy and Jackie [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] … And there was Kathleen [Kennedy] wanting to have teas like President Kennedy had had teas. I tell you, it was the most …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… This was soon after William Bennett had become the first President [George H. W.] Bush’s drug czar. And Senator … and ’94 were an important period in the office. President [William] Clinton had come into office in January … a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic President, and a lot of energy. Obviously a lot of effort …
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| Bill Clinton Project… began I had the view—and it always seemed to me that the President had a similar view, though he would have put it in … something that is provided. If you look at the history of Presidencies—whether it is John Kennedy and the Cuban missile … D. Roosevelt] and the Depression and the war—most Presidents are not remembered by what they campaigned on. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… graduated from high school in ’77, and [Jimmy] Carter was President, and the military was collapsing, so it was not a … We met at the University of Texas at Austin, and I was the president of the University Republicans, in 1980, which has …